I've problem "No partition found. Insert USB cable and fix it."

[luisan1977]

Hello, my English is not too good and I hope to explain itself.
I have installed rockbox to my ipod nano of 4GB as it says the manual of rockbox, but when starting it leaves the screen rockbox and soon partition jumps east message of error “Not found. Insert USB cable and fix it.”
I have format in fat 32 my iopd nano.
that it is what I make bad?
to help me please?
thanks

[LambdaCalculus]

*sticks Babelfish into ear*

Your iPod nano is supposed to be formatted as FAT32, so that's okay.

But you need to tell us if you're trying this with a 1st Generation nano or a 2nd Generation nano.

If your nano looks something like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/KoolgiyBlackNano.JPG

Then Rockbox will work.

If it looks like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Nano_omores.jpg

Then Rockbox will not work.

But I'm betting it's a 1st Generation. Can you tell us what revision you're using? There is a string of numbers that starts with an r when Rockbox starts up. Can you read them and tell us what the numbers are?

[luisan1977]

Hello again.

My ipod is of first generation, is the same one that the photo first, black ahead and silver behind.

the numbers that appear when initiating rockbox are these:

to see. r14367-070816

after appearing this to the 7 or 8 seconds the message jumps of: “Not partition found. Insert USB cable and fix it.”

thanks for the aid.

to pardon by my English

[LambdaCalculus]

I'm really going out on a limb here, but try to restore your iPod in iTunes, then reinstall Rockbox according to the manual.

Is your computer running Windows or Linux? Or do you have a Macintosh?

[luisan1977]

 have recovered my ipod with itunes, have proven four versions different from iopd nano software, the 1,0, the 1,1, 1,2 and the 1.3.1.

my computer has the operating system Windows.

[linuxstb]

Can you post the output of ipodpatcher?  That displays information about your ipod's partitions which may give us a clue.

[luisan1977]

this is what it leaves to me when I install ipodpatcher.
He was this what you request to me?

[LambdaCalculus]

That's strange... nothing seems to be out of the ordinary with iPodpatcher.

What about the Rockbox build itself? Are you extracting it to the root of your player's drive?

In other words, if your iPod appears as, say, G:\, are you telling whatever you open zip files with to just extract the contents of the zip file to G:\, or somewhere else?

[luisan1977]

If the folder .rockbox is on the root of ipod, in fact the program makes the attempt start but soon found shows to the message of error “Not partition. Insert USB cable and fix it.”

the other day I could install a very old version but with installer old of rockbox, and loader, but it failed since the sound was not clean, and ipod was blocked.

for that reason it is strange to me that with the new structure of rockbox it does not work.

I think that my ipod has some failure in the internal memory or some sector of ipod is damaged.

it has something to see that days back installed ipodlinux, and some data esten giving failure for the installation of rockbox? But already formate completely ipod is due to have erased no?

[LambdaCalculus]

If you're thinking that the internal flash memory may be damaged, then you'll have to use scandisk or some kind of disk maintainence software to diagnose it and see where the real trouble lies.

[luisan1977]

Hello, I believe already that where this the error, and because gives the failure of the partition, when installing ipodlinux uses aefdisk32.exe, with which it creates a partition to install ipodlinux.

aes x /delete:x
aes x /pri:YYYY:fat32

That I must make to leave ipod like at the outset?

[jimmyRidge]

i've been having this problem aswell, its driving me nutz

i have a black 4GB Gen1 Nano

havent tried using windows's native format/partitioner im a linux freak

also here is fdisk's output

Disk /dev/sdc: 4095 MB, 4095737344 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 497 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1               1          10       80293+   0  Empty
/dev/sdc2              11         497     3911824+   b  W95 FAT32

and also for some strange reason diagnostics mode says "PARTITION UNKNOWN"  in teh drive info... page thingy,

mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sd$#

dunno whats wrong my heads starting to hurt

upon changing partition ID to 0C it fails faster im gonna go to my friends house and try restoring it with itunes and get back to every1  previously ive been doing the
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodManualRestore

its weird cause the apple firmware can write/create the directories on first boot but rockbox fails to detect/mount

ok so i went to a friends house to have him format it with windowsXP fixed the diagnostic hd_info patition=fat32

but still rockbox fails to boot

think it might have something to do with it being a "nike ipod"? i dunno i bought it off craigslist

so yeah theres my problem i gotta find out what makes this ipod so different

[void303]

ipod: ipod nano 2gb 1st generation
firmware: 1.1 and 1.3.1
model: MA004FD
format: Windows
pc: windows xp sp2


i have the same problem, i succsessfully patched the bootloader with ipodpatcher

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ipodpatcher v2.0 with v2.0 bootloaders - (C) Dave Chapman 2006-2007
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[INFO] Scanning disk devices...
[INFO] Ipod found - 1st Generation Nano ("winpod") - disk device 5
[INFO] Reading partition table from \\.\PhysicalDrive5
[INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes
[INFO] Part    Start Sector    End Sector   Size (MB)   Type
[INFO]    0              63        160649        78.4   Empty (0x00)
[INFO]    1          160656       3984119      1866.9   W95 FAT32 (0x0b)
[INFO] Ipod model: 1st Generation Nano ("winpod")
[INFO] Input file is 512 bytes
[INFO] Writing input file to device
[INFO] Wrote 512 bytes plus 0 bytes padding.
[INFO] mbr-nano2gb.bin restored to partition

i manually copied the rockbox zip content in the root directory of the ipod (I:\.rockbox)
(used this version 14968 and  r14974: http://build.rockbox.org/dist/build-ipodnano/rockbox.zip)

the ipod boots perfect, i see the rockbox logo, and then a pastel-blue screen with black text appears:

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No partition
found.
Insert USB cable
and fix it

i also tired the auto auto update tool http://download.rockbox.org/rbutil/win32/rbutilqt-v1.0.1.zip
i manually selected "apple ipod nanon 1st gen) at I:\ (autodetection works too)

bootloader installation dont work:

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Starting Bootloader installation
Searching ipods
No Ipods found

but the rockbox installation works without a problem. i tried both versions "archived build" and "current build"

i tried to completely delete the ipod and fat32 format it with windows,  also tried  ipodpatcher's "format"

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ipodpatcher.exe -f
ipodpatcher v2.0 with v2.0 bootloaders - (C) Dave Chapman 2006-2007
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[INFO] Scanning disk devices...
[INFO] Ipod found - 1st Generation Nano ("winpod") - disk device 5
[INFO] Reading partition table from \\.\PhysicalDrive5
[INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes
[INFO] Part    Start Sector    End Sector   Size (MB)   Type
[INFO]    0              63        160649        78.4   Empty (0x00)
[INFO]    1          160656       3984119      1866.9   W95 FAT32 (0x0b)
[INFO] Ipod model: 1st Generation Nano ("winpod")
WARNING!!! YOU ARE ABOUT TO USE AN EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE.
ALL DATA ON YOUR IPOD WILL BE ERASED.
Are you sure you want to format your ipod? (y/n):y
[INFO] Heads - 255, sectors/track = 63
[INFO] Size : 1GB 0 sectors
[INFO] 512 Bytes Per Sector, Cluster size 4096 bytes
[INFO] Volume ID is 0:0
[INFO] 32 Reserved Sectors, 3727 Sectors per FAT, 2 fats
[INFO] 476997 Total clusters
[INFO] Formatting partition 1:...
[INFO] Clearing out 7494 sectors for Reserved sectors, fats and root cluster...
[INFO] Initialising reserved sectors and FATs...

all with no effort.


tried to download the bootloader file (http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/ipod/bootloader-ipodnano.ipod) and installed it with ipodpatcher

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ipodpatcher.exe -a bootloader-ip
odnano.ipod
ipodpatcher v2.0 with v2.0 bootloaders - (C) Dave Chapman 2006-2007
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[INFO] Scanning disk devices...
[INFO] Ipod found - 1st Generation Nano ("winpod") - disk device 5
[INFO] Reading partition table from \\.\PhysicalDrive5
[INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes
[INFO] Part    Start Sector    End Sector   Size (MB)   Type
[INFO]    0              63        160649        78.4   Empty (0x00)
[INFO]    1          160656       3984119      1866.9   W95 FAT32 (0x0b)
[INFO] Ipod model: 1st Generation Nano ("winpod")
[INFO] Checksum OK in bootloader-ipodnano.ipod
[INFO] Reading original firmware...
[INFO]  Wrote 5615616 bytes to firmware partition
[INFO] Bootloader bootloader-ipodnano.ipod written to device.

all with the same result. "no partition found. insert usb cable and fix it"

is there something else i can do? i really would like to get rid of apples "system", i really want to use rockbox.

are there any other things i can try on a windows machine? is there a "hard disk" image of the ipod, with the correct partition which i only have to wirte to the ipod? are there any debug tools / log files i can look into or sent to you to help you debug it?

edit:
ipodpatcher -v --list
ipodpatcher -v -a bootloader-ipodnano.ipod
ipodpatcher -v --list

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ipodpatcher -v --list
ipodpatcher v2.0 with v2.0 bootloaders - (C) Dave Chapman 2006-2007
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[INFO] Scanning disk devices...
[INFO] Ipod found - 1st Generation Nano ("winpod") - disk device 5
[INFO] Reading partition table from \\.\PhysicalDrive5
[INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes
[INFO] Part    Start Sector    End Sector   Size (MB)   Type
[INFO]    0              63        160649        78.4   Empty (0x00)
[INFO]    1          160656       3984119      1866.9   W95 FAT32 (0x0b)
[INFO] Ipod model: 1st Generation Nano ("winpod")
    Type         id  devOffset        len       addr entryOffset    chksum
 vers   loadAddr   devOffset+len
0 - OSOS 0x00000000 0x00004400 0x0054f000 0x10000000 0x00000000 0x1f75b246 0x000
0c009 0xffffffff 0x00553400
1 - RSRC 0x00000000 0x0055f600 0x01000000 0x10000000 0x00000000 0x7b63b30c 0x000
0c009 0xffffffff 0x0155f600
2 - AUPD 0x00000001 0x0155f800 0x000851dc 0x10000000 0x00000000 0x04835edd 0x000
0c009 0xffffffff 0x015e4a00
3 - HIBE 0x00000001 0x015e4c00 0x02000200 0x10000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x000
00000 0xffffffff 0x035e4e00

Listing firmware partition contents:

Image 1:
    Main firmware - 5566464 bytes
Image 2:
    RSRC - 16777216 bytes
Image 3:
    AUPD - 545244 bytes
Image 4:
    HIBE - 33554944 bytes

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ipodpatcher -v -a bootloader-ipodnano.ipod
ipodpatcher v2.0 with v2.0 bootloaders - (C) Dave Chapman 2006-2007
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[INFO] Scanning disk devices...
[INFO] Ipod found - 1st Generation Nano ("winpod") - disk device 5
[INFO] Reading partition table from \\.\PhysicalDrive5
[INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes
[INFO] Part    Start Sector    End Sector   Size (MB)   Type
[INFO]    0              63        160649        78.4   Empty (0x00)
[INFO]    1          160656       3984119      1866.9   W95 FAT32 (0x0b)
[INFO] Ipod model: 1st Generation Nano ("winpod")
[INFO] Checksum OK in bootloader-ipodnano.ipod
[VERB] Original firmware begins at 0x00004600
[VERB] New entryOffset will be 0x0054f000
[VERB] End of bootloader will be at 0x0055b000
[INFO] Reading original firmware...
[INFO]  Wrote 5615616 bytes to firmware partition
[INFO] Bootloader bootloader-ipodnano.ipod written to device.

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ipodpatcher -v --list
ipodpatcher v2.0 with v2.0 bootloaders - (C) Dave Chapman 2006-2007
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[INFO] Scanning disk devices...
[INFO] Ipod found - 1st Generation Nano ("winpod") - disk device 5
[INFO] Reading partition table from \\.\PhysicalDrive5
[INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes
[INFO] Part    Start Sector    End Sector   Size (MB)   Type
[INFO]    0              63        160649        78.4   Empty (0x00)
[INFO]    1          160656       3984119      1866.9   W95 FAT32 (0x0b)
[INFO] Ipod model: 1st Generation Nano ("winpod")
    Type         id  devOffset        len       addr entryOffset    chksum
 vers   loadAddr   devOffset+len
0 - OSOS 0x00000000 0x00004400 0x0055af4c 0x10000000 0x0054f000 0x1fc3670d 0x000
0c009 0xffffffff 0x0055f400
1 - RSRC 0x00000000 0x0055f600 0x01000000 0x10000000 0x00000000 0x7b63b30c 0x000
0c009 0xffffffff 0x0155f600
2 - AUPD 0x00000001 0x0155f800 0x000851dc 0x10000000 0x00000000 0x04835edd 0x000
0c009 0xffffffff 0x015e4a00
3 - HIBE 0x00000001 0x015e4c00 0x02000200 0x10000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x000
00000 0xffffffff 0x035e4e00

Listing firmware partition contents:

Image 1:
    Main firmware - 5566464 bytes
    Third-party bootloader - 48972 bytes
Image 2:
    RSRC - 16777216 bytes
Image 3:
    AUPD - 545244 bytes
Image 4:
    HIBE - 33554944 bytes

edit end

greets
julian

[void303]

when i press the  play/pause button while booting i get this:

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Rockbox boot loader 
Version: 2.0
IPOD version: 0x000C0005
%%ipod serial%%
Partition 1: 0x0B 1866
Loading Linux...
Error!
Can't load linux.bin
File not found
Hold MENU+SELECT to
reboot then SELECT+PLAY
for disk mode

can anybody help?

[Febs]

when i press the  play/pause button while booting i get this:

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Rockbox boot loader 
Version: 2.0
IPOD version: 0x000C0005
%%ipod serial%%
Partition 1: 0x0B 1866
Loading Linux...
Error!
Can't load linux.bin
File not found
Hold MENU+SELECT to
reboot then SELECT+PLAY
for disk mode

can anybody help?

Install a Rockbox build as described in this section of the Manual under the heading "Installing the firmware."